Here are the most popular New York City neighborhoods for new graduates

New York City is the greatest city in the world, and it draws
people looking to find their fortune from just about everywhere.

Next Step Realty,
a New York City real-estate brokerage that matches recent
graduates and young professionals with luxury apartments, shared
data with Business Insider on over 1,000 2016 graduates and the
neighborhoods they moved to from May through July of this year.

Next Step CEO and
cofounder Blair Brandt told Business Insider that "the
Upper East Side is officially no longer the highest-volume weapon
of choice in the NYC neighborhoods for the freshman class of NYC.
That baton was passed back to Murray Hill and Kips Bay in 2016
vs. 2015, although the two have gone back and forth over the
years due to competitive prices on Upper East Side and Murray
Hill's concentration of young professionals, as well as proximity
to increasingly Midtown-located employers."

The 10 most popular areas for Next Step's customers
include several locales that have long been home to New York's
elite:

Business
Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Next Step

Seeing as we are looking at apartments in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
rent is not cheap. Among those 10 most popular
neighborhoods, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment for
Next Step's clients ranges from $2,400 a month in Alphabet
City and the Upper West Side to $4,128 in the West Village: